Baker&#39;s peel.



H. B. JONES.

BAKERS PEEL.

APPLIOATION FILED 9911.19, 1909.

Patented July 13, 1909.

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BAKER/S PEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application led January 19, 1909. Serial No. 473,039.

T 0 all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that HENRY B. JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yonkers, in the county of `Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bakers Peels, of which the following is a specific. tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in bakers peels and more particularly vto tho means for fastening together the blades and handles of the saine.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and practical fastening of this character which will securely unite the blade to the handle without weakening either part or rendering them liable to be split and which will present a smooth or unbroken surface on both sides of the device.

vWith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are views of opposite sides of the peel; Fig. 3 is an edge viewof the same; Fig. l is a longitudinal section; Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sections taken, respectively, on the planes indicated by the lines 5 5 and 6-6 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 7 is a view of the blank from which the connecting member is made.

In the drawings 1 denotes the blade of the peel which is of usual form and has a reduced rear end 2 which is further reduced to provide a substantially rectangular shank or tang 3 and transverse shoulders 4l.

5 denotes a handle for the peel which is also of usual form and which has at its front end a reduced shank or tang 6 which provides shoulders 7.

8 denotes my improved connecting member for uniting the blade and handle. Said member has at one end a large socket 9 and shaped to receive the blade shank 3, which latter is secured therein by screws 10 or similar fastenings, and at its other end it has a reduced socket 11 to receive the shank G of the handle, which latter is held in position by a transverse fastening 12 such as a bolt or the like. Said connecting or fastening niember 8 is preferably formed from a single piece of sheet metal by cutting the same in the form shown in Fig. 7 and then bending the saine to provide the large. and small socket portions E), 11. The blank shown in Fig. 7 is of substantially rectangular shape and one of its ends is notched and cut to provide five longitudinally extending tongues 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. The centrally arranged tongue 15 has its side edges bent up at right angles to provide parallel ,flanges 1S so that said tongue is channeled or of U-shape in cross section to receive thi` shank (i of the handle. '.lhe two tongues 14, 1G are bent imvardly at right angles at their inner ends to forni shoulders 19 and they are again bent at right angles so as to project within the channeled tongue 15 and lie between its flanges 1S and the opposite sides of the shank of the handle. The two outermost tongues 1.3, 17 are bent into angular form so that they have parallel flanges 2O to overlap the llanges 18 of the tongue 15 and 'iinvardly extending flanges to close or partially close the open Aface of the channeled tongue 15 and retain the. shank (i of the handle therein. lt will be seen that the tongues 1,3, 14, 15, 16, 17, when bent as just described and engaged with each other form the small socket portion 11 of the connecting member for the reception of the shank of the handle. '.lhe large socket portion 9 for the shank of the blade is formed by bending the solid end of the blank over u on itself or into rectangular form so that its ongitudinal edges meet or are brought substantially in contact with each other, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The shank 3 of the blade is inserted in the socket 9 until its shoulders 4 engage the outer end edges of the connecting member and it is secured therein, preferably, by the two screws 10 which are passed through openings 21 formed in the blank adjacent to its meeting longitudinal edges. The shank 6 of the handle is similarly inserted in the socket 11 until the end edges of the latter engage the shoulders 7 and said shank is retained in the socket, preferably, by passing the bolt 12 through registering openings formed in the shank 6 and in thc overlapping portions of the tongues 13, 111, 15, 16, 17, as clearly shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that by constructing the connecting member from a single sheet or late of metal and securing the shanks of the blade and handle in its two socket portions as shown, an exceedingly simple, strong, durable and inexpensive connection or fastening is provided. rlhe pe culiar manner et' constructing the socket for the handle shank renders the connecting member exceedingly strong and provides a very effective fastening for the handle and the peculiar manner of arranging the blade in the connecting member and fastening it therein, obviates all liability of the blade cracking or splitting.

While l have shown and described in detail the preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, arrangement and details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A bakers peel comprising a blade formed at its inner end with a reduced portion or shank, a handle, a connecting` member formed from a single piece of sheet metal of substantially rectangular shape, one end of said sheet metal piece being bent upon itself to form a socket for the reception of the shank of the blade and the other end of said sheet metal piece being out and bent to provide a socket for the reception of the handle, the last mentioned socket having overlapping portions, fastenings passed through said overlapping portions of the last mentioned socket and into the handle and fastenings for retaining the shank of the blade in the socket oi the connecting member.

2. A bakers peel comprising a blade, a handle, a connecting member formed from a rectangular sheet metal blank, the latter having one end out and bent to provide the eentrallyarranged longitudinally extending ehanneled tongue 15, the two angularly bent intermediate tongues 14, 16 and the two angular longitudinally extending tongues 13, 17, said tongues having overlapping portions with registering openings, said tongues forming a socket to receive the handle and having overlapping portions formed with registering openings, the other end of the blank being bent upon itself to form a socket to receive the blade and also formed with openings, and iastenings passed through said openings in the several portions of the blank and into the blade and handle 'to secure them in the sockets of the connecting member.

In testimony whereof lf hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY B. JONES.

Witnesses WM, H. RADGLIFF, Jas. E. Howes. 

